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Indian Ernie

Indian Ernie

Perspectives on Policing and Leadership by Ernie Louttit
by Ernie Louttit
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When he began his career with the Saskatoon Police in 1987, Ernie Louttit was only the city’s third native police officer. “Indian Ernie”, as he came to be known on the streets, details an era of challenge, prejudice, and also tremendous change in urban policing which included the Stonechild Inquiry. Drawing from his childhood, army career, a …

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Captain Cook Rediscovered

Captain Cook Rediscovered

Voyaging to the Icy Latitudes
by David L. Nicandri
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tagged : expeditions & discoveries, meteorology & climatology

Captain Cook Rediscovered is the first modern study to frame Captain James Cook’s career from a North American vantage. Although Cook is inextricably linked to the South Pacific in the popular imagination, his crowning navigational and scientific achievements took place in the polar regions. David L. Nicandri acknowledges the cartographic accompl …

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Our Hearts Are as One Fire

Our Hearts Are as One Fire

An Ojibway-Anishinabe Vision for the Future
by Jerry Fontaine
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A vision shared. A manifesto. This remarkable work argues that Anishinabeg need to reconnect with non-colonized modes of thinking, social organization, and decision making in order to achieve genuine sovereignty. In Our Hearts Are as One Fire, Jerry Fontaine recounts the stories of three Ota’wa, Shawnee, and Ojibway-Anishinabe leaders who challen …

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He Thinks He's Down

He Thinks He's Down

White Appropriations of Black Masculinities in the Civil Rights Era
by Katharine Bausch
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The end of the Second World War saw a “crisis of white masculinity” brought on by social change. As a result, several prominent white male pop culture figures sought out and appropriated African American cultural trappings to benefit from what they believed were powerful Black masculinities. In He Thinks He’s Down, Katharine Bausch draws on c …

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The Shoe Boy

The Shoe Boy

A Trapline Memoir
by Duncan McCue
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tagged : native americans, native american studies, personal memoirs

At the age of seventeen, an Anishinabe boy who was raised in the south joined a James Bay Cree family in a one-room hunting cabin in the isolated wilderness of northern Quebec. He learned a way of life on the land that few are familiar with. Reflecting on those five months and his search for his own personal identity, that boy – Duncan McCue – …

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Condo Conquest

Condo Conquest

Urban Governance, Law, and Condoization in New York City and Toronto
by Randy K. Lippert
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When condominiums first emerged in North American cities in the 1960s, they were a new kind of housing governed by boards of resident owners volunteering in a community. Condo Conquest shows how the condo and its inner governance have since become something else entirely, taken over – or conquered – by an assemblage of commercial interests spec …

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Vancouverism

Vancouverism

by Larry Beasley
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tagged : urban & land use planning, city planning & urban development, urban

Until the 1980s, Vancouver was a typical mid-sized North American city. But after the city hosted Expo 86, something extraordinary happened. This otherwise unremarkable urban centre was transformed into an inspiring world-class city celebrated for its liveability, sustainability, and competitiveness. This book tells the story of the urban planning …

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Incorporating Culture

Incorporating Culture

How Indigenous People Are Reshaping the Northwest Coast Art Industry
by Solen Roth
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tagged : indigenous studies, cultural, native american

Fragments of culture often become commodities when the tourism and heritage business showcases local artistic and cultural practice. And frequently, this industry develops without the consent of those whose culture is commercialized. What does this say about appropriation, social responsibility, and intercultural relationships? And what happens whe …

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Moving Aboriginal Health Forward

Moving Aboriginal Health Forward

Discarding Canada’s Legal Barriers
by Yvonne Boyer
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There is a clear connection between the health of individuals and the legal regime under which they live, particularly Aboriginal peoples. From the early ban on traditional practices to the constitutional division of powers (including who is responsible for off-reserve Indians under the Constitution), this is an historical examination of Canadian l …

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The Honour and Dishonour of the Crown

The Honour and Dishonour of the Crown

Making Sense of Aboriginal Law in Canada
by Jamie D. Dickson
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In Canada, the fundamentals of law relating to Aboriginal peoples are unclear and Indigenous communities lack appropriate guidance in terms of efficiently accessing the legal system to address breaches of their rights. This is yet another injustice endured by Aboriginal peoples in Canada. However, the Supreme Court of Canada has begun to place grea …

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Negotiating the Numbered Treaties

Negotiating the Numbered Treaties

An Intellectual and Political History of Alexander Morris
by Robert Talbot
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Alexander Morris, Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba and the North West Territories in the 1870s, was the main negotiator of many of the numbered treaties on the prairies and has often been portrayed as a parsimonious agent of the government, bent on taking advantage of First Nations chiefs and councillors. However, author Robert J. Talbot reveals Mor …

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Two Families

Two Families

Treaties and Government
by Harold Johnson
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First Nations Elders interpreted treaties as instruments that gave Europeans the right to settle here, share resources, and build a relationship of equality with those who were here before. These elders did not intend the treaties to allow the subjugation and impoverishment of First Nations, or give settler governments the right to legislate every …

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Revisiting the Duty to Consult Aboriginal Peoples

Revisiting the Duty to Consult Aboriginal Peoples

by Dwight G. Newman
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tagged : indigenous peoples, native american studies, social policy

Since the release of The Duty to Consult (Purich, 2009), there have been many important developments on the duty to consult, including three major Supreme Court of Canada decisions. Governments, Aboriginal communities, and industry stakeholders have engaged with the duty to consult in new and probably unexpected ways, developing policy statements o …

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Gambling with the Future

Gambling with the Future

The Evolution of Aboriginal Gaming in Canada
by Yale Belanger
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Many First Nations in Canada run casinos and other gambling enterprises, which have become a visible part of the Canadian landscape and foster economic development. Although early legislation was designed to control gambling, events in the US stimulated First Nations leaders to persevere and eventually capitalize on the gradual relaxation of the ru …

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The Canadian Party System

The Canadian Party System

An Analytic History
by Richard Johnston
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The Canadian party system is a deviant case among the Anglo-American democracies. Unruly and inscrutable, it is a system that defies logic and classification – until now. In this political science tour de force, Richard Johnston makes sense of the Canadian party system. With a keen eye for history and deft use of recently developed analytic tools …

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Nationhood Interrupted

Nationhood Interrupted

Revitalizing nêhiyaw Legal Systems
by Sylvia McAdam (Saysewahum)
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Traditionally, nêhiyaw (Cree) laws are shared and passed down through oral customs — stories, songs, ceremonies — using lands, waters, animals, land markings and other sacred rites. However, the loss of the languages, customs, and traditions of Indigenous peoples as a direct result of colonization has necessitated this departure from the oral …

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When the Caribou Do Not Come

When the Caribou Do Not Come

Indigenous Knowledge and Adaptive Management in the Western Arctic
edited by Brenda L. Parlee & Ken J. Caine
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In the 1990s, news stories began to circulate about declining caribou populations in the North. Were caribou the canary in the coal mine for climate change, or did declining numbers reflect overharvesting by Indigenous hunters or failed attempts at scientific wildlife management?

 

Grounded in community-based research in northern Canada, a region in …

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Diasporic Media beyond the Diaspora

Diasporic Media beyond the Diaspora

Korean Media in Vancouver and Los Angeles
by Sherry S. Yu
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Media for diasporic communities have emerged in major cities, such as Vancouver and Los Angeles, and reflect a multicultural, multiethnic, and multilingual reality. But do these media serve their respective communities exclusively, or are they available and accessible to members of greater society at large? Diasporic Media beyond the Diaspora explo …

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Before and After the State

Before and After the State

Politics, Poetics, and People(s) in the Pacific Northwest
by Allan K. McDougall; Lisa Philips & Daniel L. Boxberger
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The creation of the Canada–US border in the Pacific Northwest is often presented as a tale of two nations, but beyond the macro-political dynamics is the experience of individuals. Before and After the State examines the imposition of a border across a region that already held a vibrant, highly complex society and dynamic trading networks. Allan …

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Otter’s Journey through Indigenous Language and Law

Otter’s Journey through Indigenous Language and Law

by Lindsay Keegitah Borrows
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Storytelling has the capacity to address feelings and demonstrate themes – to illuminate beyond argument and theoretical exposition. In Otter’s Journey, Borrows makes use of the Anishinaabe tradition of storytelling to explore how the work in Indigenous language revitalization can inform the emerging field of Indigenous legal revitalization. Sh …

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Who Controls the Hunt?

Who Controls the Hunt?

First Nations, Treaty Rights, and Wildlife Conservation in Ontario, 1783-1939
by David Calverley
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tagged : native american studies, environmental policy, hunting, indigenous peoples

As the nineteenth century ended, Ontario wildlife became increasingly valuable. Tourists and sport hunters spent growing amounts of money in search of game, and the government began to extend its regulatory powers in this arena. Restrictions were imposed on hunting and trapping, completely ignoring Anishinaabeg hunting rights set out in the Robinso …

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The Creator’s Game

The Creator’s Game

Lacrosse, Identity, and Indigenous Nationhood
by Allan Downey
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Lacrosse has been a central element of Indigenous cultures for centuries, but once non-Indigenous players entered the sport, it became a site of appropriation – then reclamation – of Indigenous identities. The Creator’s Game focuses on the history of lacrosse in Indigenous communities from the 1860s to the 1990s, exploring Indigenous-non-Indi …

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We Interrupt This Program

We Interrupt This Program

Indigenous Media Tactics in Canadian Culture
by Miranda J. Brady & John M.H. Kelly
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We Interrupt This Program tells the story of how Indigenous people are using media tactics in the realms of art, film, television, and journalism to rewrite Canada’s national narratives from Indigenous perspectives.

 

Miranda Brady and John Kelly showcase the diversity of these interventions by offering personal accounts and reflections on key mome …

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By Law or In Justice

By Law or In Justice

The Indian Specific Claims Commission and the Struggle for Indigenous Justice
by Jane Dickson
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The Indian Specific Claims Commission (ICC) was formed in 1991 in response to the Oka crisis. Its purpose was to resolve claims arising from promises made to Indigenous nations in treaties, the federal Indian Act, and within other Crown obligations. This book traces the history of Indigenous claims and the work of the ICC. Written by longstanding I …

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Disabling Barriers

Disabling Barriers

Social Movements, Disability History, and the Law
edited by Ravi Malhotra & Benjamin Isitt
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Disabling Barriers analyzes issues relating to disability at different moments in Canadian and American history. In this volume, legal scholars, historians, and disability-rights activists explore how disabled people have been portrayed and treated in a variety of contexts, including within the labour market, the workers’ compensation system, the …

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Diasporic Media beyond the Diaspora

Diasporic Media beyond the Diaspora

Korean Media in Vancouver and Los Angeles
by Sherry Soo Min Yu
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Media for diasporic communities have emerged in major cities to reflect a growing diversity of languages and populations. But do these media serve their respective communities exclusively, or are they available and accessible to members of society at large? Diasporic Media beyond the Diaspora explores structural and institutional challenges and opp …

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